<VV> 100 Octane Fuel

[ScottyGrover at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/21/2008 1:59:46 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
jekepler at amplex.net writes:

 
 
In a message dated  10/20/2008 3:14:47 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, 
jekepler at amplex.net  writes:

In my former life  as mgr of Analytical Labs at U of Mi, I run a well
known octane improver  on the GC-mass spec and found out it was just
technical grade  toluene.

 
Many years ago, I  worked as a lab technician for Wyandotte Chemicals; one of 
my jobs was  collecting and analysing "aromatic distillate tops" which was a 
mixture of  benzene, toluene and xylene (mostly toluene.) The analysis only 
used a few  ounces out of the quart bottle I collected so the rest of the bottle 
went into  my fuel tank.  A few days' worth of this fuel additive made my  
Kaiser with the Continental Red Seal engine run like the supercharged  model. 
Good old TBX  vol-fraction out of a coke oven….in your case, probably coming 
from  Zug Island or Semet Solvay Coke in there in Wyandotte.  The  coal it was 
made from was mine! 
John-Pickands Mather  & Co.



Sorry, Wyandotte Chemical had its own oil refinery there--its' primary  
product was ethylene (for the making of ethylene glycol for several brands of  
anti-freeze sold in the area.) Various by-products such as the aromatic  
distillate tops which was used to improve the octane rating of gasoline from  Michigan 
crude; aromatic distillate bottoms which contained resins used by  plastics 
manufacturers. The glycol was easy to make; Wyandotte had their own  salt wells 
under the Detroit River, from which chlorine could be extracted by  
electrolysis and of course they had the whole river for their water  supply.  Another 
byproduct was sodium carbonate (washing soda), also sodium  bicarbonate (baking 
soda.)
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